Leave your brains at the door.

Originally Posted 11/05/08


I check the Spiritual Rights Foundation broadcast site on Live 365 every so often - just to see if they are still spewing the same old stuff. They are.

The broadcast I am listening to now started off with a little spiel about taking a class at SRF. The speaker said that the nice thing about classes at SRF is that you can "turn off your analyzer and not have to think".

Imagine that. A class where thought is not necessary. In fact, thinking with your rational mind and using your knowledge is discouraged. Any time you start thinking "hey, what I am being told and are being taught is not lining up with with what I am seeing around me or what I know " you will be told that you are "in your analyzer" which will interfere with your spiritual learning.

OK, so how many teachings, religious or otherwise ask you to stop thinking? A lot come to mind. Like the Moonies. The Children of God, too. All those cultic organizations will ask your to stop thinking.

Ernest Hemingway said: “Develop a built-in bullshit detector.” I thought I did. Somehow, I took my trust in the 99% of the good people of the world and applied it to an organization that acted like the other 1%. Hey, maybe they represented the entire 1%!

Well suffice it to say that organizations like the Spiritual Rights Foundation almost always tell you to stop thinking for yourself. At SRF, your vast file of information is called various things like "family programming", "invalidation", "false morals and ethics", "human expectations".

They say that because our mores, values and standards of behavior are formed from the society we all live in: the human society. Many of the good values, beliefs and moral judgment we formed through our lives are disdained by the good people at SRF, to be replaced the the wholesome and divinely guided values, judgment and beliefs they created.

Wholesome beliefs such as keeping couples in conflict. Divine values such as "pink prison". The inspired judgment of having two women, both romantically involved with the leader, own church property instead of the church. Telling the congregation that the property owned by the president and vice president of the church are "places for the people". The righteous belief that work will set you free - work you'll perform for the benefit of the two Witches at the top of the spiritual trash heap without wages, without appreciation and without even a cup of coffee.. The divine guidance of stuffing the member's donations to the church into your own pocket because you believe you are truly "the body of the church" so that should entitle you to any of the money anyone gives to the church.

Does all that sound like something you'd rather not step in?  It should.  However to us, it sounded like heavenly truth.  It was divine inspiration.  To us, it sounded like anything but the lies, distortions and deception this collection of vomitus represented.

We turned off our bullshit detector. It took a while to turn it back on. It had to come on gradually. Turning it on full blast after all that would have been so shocking that it would not only turn our world upside down, we would probably have a stroke. Or maybe wind up like our friend "Santa".

Those who have recently departed - in fact, it appears all who have departed in the last two or so years, are having more than a little difficulty reconciling the poisonous and infective spiritual truths the Academy for Psychic Studies dug up from the pits of hell.  You see the same far-away look in their eyes when they reminisce about their past as the showed in their glory days living out the deranged principles, perverse values and warped morals they acquired at the Academy .

Their bullshit detector is turned off.  Actually, I'd say it's wired backwards: Academy for Psychic Studies bullshit is detected as truth, truth triggers a bullshit alert. Re-wiring it now or maybe anytime would be an impossibility for them.  The warped and unrealistic thinking of this group may be unnerving and annoying but at this point it's the only thing protecting them from a meltdown.  In their case, the truth will hurt so much, it can cause even more psychological trauma than retaining their cult thinking, not matter how bad and unproductive that thinking may be for them.

Ask any one of them if they saw the incongruity of having to provide regular adoration and a more-than-decent living to two women who give back no more than daily abuse and they will agree.  Tell them the abuse and exploitation is just one facet of a larger con game that included phony, misleading and outright deceptive missives disguised as esoteric truths for their personal spiritual ascendency and you will start a war.

The con game was so perfect, so smooth, so long-lasting and intense, their thinking and powers of reasoning had been re-wired into a form vastly different from their former selves.  It's a form the psychotic founder of the Academy for Psychic Studies counted on for the continuation of the con game.

When that psychotic recalled the morality taught him by his foster mother and saw her face as he reviewed the carnage he created and realized it was he alone who allowed two female monsters to emerge from his mad doctor laboratory, he dropped dead on the floor.  The two monsters, having been created in the environment of evil continued as monsters will do - in the relentless pursuit of their own interests with callous disregard of the needs of the people around them.

With the monsters now unleashed and their agenda exposed, a few have slowly restored their sense of discrimination.   Those are the ones who can reconcile their own truth and morality without dropping dead.  That is a much harder road to travel than keeping your bullshit discriminator on no matter what.


If there is one thing I would ask of you it would be to do as Hemingway said: “Develop a built-in bullshit detector.” Turn it on full blast. And keep it turned on. And never let anyone tell you it's wrong.

And if that detector rises while you read this blog, please post a comment.